Medea Quotes

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, Medea

“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, Medea

“My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, Medea

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”
― Euripides, Medea

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.”
― Euripides, Medea

“death is the only water to wash away this dirt”
― Euripides, Medea

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
― Euripides, Medea

“I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe”
― Euripides, Medea

“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”
― Euripides, Medea

“We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Since I am wise, some people envy me,
some think I'm idle, some the opposite,
and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.”
― Euripides, Medea

“In childbirth grief begins.”
― Euripides, Medea

“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
― Euripides, Medea

“Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don't expect
some god finds a way to make it happen.
So with this story”
― Euripides, Medea

“Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.”
― Euripides, Medea

“MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.
JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.
MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness.”
― Euripides, Medea

“What heavenly power lends an ear
To a breaker of oaths, a deceiver?”
― Euripides, Medea

“You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”
― Euripides, Medea

“Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings an end to everything.”
― Euripides, Medea

“O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell
True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know
Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?”
― Euripides, Medea